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5 July 2003 (Volume 327, Issue 7405)
 
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Other Issues:
 Editor's choice
This week in the BMJ
Editorials
News
News roundup
News extra
Papers
Primary care
Learning in practice
Clinical review
Education and debate
Letters
Obituaries
reviews
Minerva
Fillers
Corrections
Career focus
Website extra
Press releases

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Editor's choice

 

From publication to change
Richard Smith [Full text]  

 

This week in the BMJ

 

This week in the BMJ [Full text] [PDF]

 

Risk stratified rates better than surgeon specific mortality data [Full text]
Risk of liver injury from NSAIDs is small [Full text]
Respiratory vaccine for infants is still a long way off [Full text]
Prehospital thrombolysis by paramedics saves time [Full text]
Effectiveness of nicotine patches is overstated [Full text]
Complications of mastoiditis are rare but life threatening [Full text]
Knowledge translation helps close a gap [Full text]

Editorials

 

  Prehospital thrombolysis
Bernard D Prendergast
BMJ 2003; 327: 1-2. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Genetics and the general practitioner
Fred Kavalier and Alastair Kent
BMJ 2003; 327: 2-3. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Water, sanitation, and hygiene at Kyoto
Val Curtis and Sandy Cairncross
BMJ 2003; 327: 3-4. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Managing agitation and aggression after head injury
Simon Fleminger
BMJ 2003; 327: 4-5. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  INRs and point of care testing
ET Murray and M Greaves
BMJ 2003; 327: 5-6. [Full text] [PDF]  
 

News

 

NHS staff should inform patients of negligent acts [Full text] [PDF]  
Drug helps patients with relapsed myeloma [Full text] [PDF]  
In brief [Full text] [PDF]  
BMA annual representative meeting, Torquay: BMA chairman criticises erosion of clinical autonomy [Full text] [PDF]  
BMA annual representative meeting, Torquay: Doctors postpone decision on industrial action [Full text] [PDF]  
Long term use of combined HRT doubles cancer risk [Full text] [PDF]  
Prostate cancer drug may be useful for prevention [Full text] [PDF]  
Deadly radiation ignored in Iraq [Full text] [PDF]  
Improving the management of chronic disease [Full text] [PDF]  

News roundup

 

Medicines Control Agency slated by Commons committee [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  
Group to review babies' deaths [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  
UN report predicts shortfall in AIDS funding in developing countries [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  
Doctors fear that rise in infection rates points to a return to unsafe sex [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  
Unsafe sexual practices are common, say US studies [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  
Health effects of chemicals need closer scrutiny [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  
Aid agency launches latest initiative to tackle diseases in the developing world [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  
Report calls for better evaluation of pharmcogenetic tests [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]  

News extra

 

Very preterm babies at greater risk of slow development [Full text]  
Oxford professor faces investigation over rejection of Israeli student [Full text]  
US scientists back bill for free access to publicly funded science research [Full text]  
Australian public hospitals face only a residual role in elective surgery [Full text]  
Women with dense breast tissue need both mammography and ultrasonography to detect tumours [Full text]  
Karaoke can damage singers’ voices and hearing [Full text]  

 

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Papers

 

Surgeon specific mortality in adult cardiac surgery: comparison between crude and risk stratified data
Ben Bridgewater, Anthony D Grayson, Mark Jackson, Nicholas Brooks, Geir J Grotte, Daniel J M Keenan, Russell Millner, Brian M Fabri, and Mark Jones
BMJ 2003; 327: 13-17. [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF]  
 
Cohort study of hepatotoxicity associated with nimesulide and other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs
Giuseppe Traversa, Clara Bianchi, Roberto Da Cas, Iosief Abraha, Francesca Menniti-Ippolito, and Mauro Venegoni
BMJ 2003; 327: 18-22. [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF]  
 
Prospective observational cohort study of time saved by prehospital thrombolysis for ST elevation myocardial infarction delivered by paramedics
David K Pedley, Kim Bissett, Elizabeth M Connolly, Carol G Goodman, Ian Golding, T H Pringle, G P McNeill, S D Pringle, and M C Jones
BMJ 2003; 327: 22-26. [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Safety and feasibility of prehospital thrombolysis carried out by paramedics
Phil Keeling, Debbie Hughes, Linnie Price, Steve Shaw, and Andy Barton
BMJ 2003; 327: 27-28. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Abstinence from smoking eight years after participation in randomised controlled trial of nicotine patch
Patricia Yudkin, Kate Hey, Sarah Roberts, Sarah Welch, Michael Murphy, and Robert Walton
BMJ 2003; 327: 28-29. [Full text] [PDF]  
 

Primary care

 

Reliability of international normalised ratios from two point of care test systems: comparison with conventional methods
Leon Poller, Michelle Keown, Nikhil Chauhan, Anton MHP van den Besselaar, Armando Tripodi, Caroline Shiach, and Jorgen Jespersen
BMJ 2003; 327: 30. [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF]  
 

Learning in practice

 

  The case for knowledge translation: shortening the journey from evidence to effect
Dave Davis, Mike Evans, Alex Jadad, Laure Perrier, Darlyne Rath, David Ryan, Gary Sibbald, Sharon Straus, Susan Rappolt, Maria Wowk, and Merrick Zwarenstein
BMJ 2003; 327: 33-35. [Full text] [PDF]  
 

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Clinical review

 

  Viral lower respiratory tract infection in infants and young children
J B M van Woensel, W M C van Aalderen, and J L L Kimpen
BMJ 2003; 327: 36-40. [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Additional references]  
 
  Lesson of the week: Life threatening complications after partially treated mastoiditis
Jemy Jose, Andrew P Coatesworth, Richard Anthony, and P Gerard Reilly
BMJ 2003; 327: 41-42. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  ABC of interventional cardiology: Interventional pharmacotherapy
Roger Philipp and Ever D Grech
BMJ 2003; 327: 43-46. [Full text] [PDF]  
 

Education and debate

 

  Strategy for randomised clinical trials in rare cancers
Say-Beng Tan, Keith B G Dear, Paolo Bruzzi, and David Machin
BMJ 2003; 327: 47-49. [Full text] [PDF] [extra: A paper giving a worked example of the method available]  
 

Letters

 

  This week's letters [PDF]
 
  Outcomes of screening to prevent cancer: Think of screening as insurance
Peter D Sasieni
BMJ 2003; 327: 50. [Full text]  
 
  Outcomes of screening to prevent cancer: Authors' reply
A E Raffle, B Alden, M Quinn, P J Babb, and M T Brett
BMJ 2003; 327: 50. [Full text]  
 
  Effectiveness of lipid lowering drugs in general practice: Article illustrates major problem
Tim W M Wang, Callum A Livingstone, and Gordon A Ferns
BMJ 2003; 327: 50-51. [Full text]  
 
  Effectiveness of lipid lowering drugs in general practice: Study had two major flaws
Bernard M Y Cheung and Cyrus R Kumana
BMJ 2003; 327: 51. [Full text]  
 
  Effectiveness of lipid lowering drugs in general practice: Authors' reply
Julia Hippisley-Cox, Mike Pringle, and Carol Coupland
BMJ 2003; 327: 51. [Full text]  
 
  Assisted suicide and euthanasia in Switzerland: Doctors occupy special position
Georg Bosshard
BMJ 2003; 327: 51-52. [Full text]  
 
  Assisted suicide and euthanasia in Switzerland: Doctors should keep out of it
Bob Bury
BMJ 2003; 327: 52. [Full text]  
 
  Assisted suicide and euthanasia in Switzerland: "Comfort care" needs robust moral framework
Gregory Gardner
BMJ 2003; 327: 52. [Full text]  
 
  Assisted suicide and euthanasia in Switzerland: Distinction needs to be made between choice and obligation
Mary J Curtis
BMJ 2003; 327: 52. [Full text]  
 
  Assisted suicide and euthanasia in Switzerland: Authors' reply
Samia A Hurst and Alex Mauron
BMJ 2003; 327: 52-53. [Full text]  
 
  Telephone consultation requires appropriate training
Roger Higgs, Geraldine Blache, Marilyn Peters, Ewan Armstrong, and Lynda Jessopp
BMJ 2003; 327: 53. [Full text]  
 
  "Author pays" publishing model: Not all authors will gain
Alan W Bates
BMJ 2003; 327: 53. [Full text]  
 
  "Author pays" publishing model: NHS authors now enjoy free open access publication
David C Prosser
BMJ 2003; 327: 53-54. [Full text]  
 
  "Author pays" publishing model: Answering to some objections
Peter Suber
BMJ 2003; 327: 54. [Full text]  
 
  "Author pays" publishing model: Strategy is needed to get from A to B
Leo J M Waaijers
BMJ 2003; 327: 54. [Full text]  
 
  "Author pays" publishing model: Model is concerned with vanity and profit
Simon Chapman
BMJ 2003; 327: 54. [Full text]  
 
  "Author pays" publishing model: Only "bad" authors should pay
Joseph C Watine
BMJ 2003; 327: 54. [Full text]  
 

Obituaries

 

This week's obituaries [PDF]

 

Margaret Borzyskowski [Full text] [extra: Longer version]  
Malcolm Sinclair Campbell [Full text] [extra: Longer version]  
Lawrence Crouch [Full text] [extra: Longer version]  
Rachel Joce [Full text]  
Alistair Law [Full text] [extra: Longer version]  
Robert Allardyce Main [Full text] [extra: Longer version]  
Frederick William Millard [Full text] [extra: Longer version]  
Charles Warden Orr [Full text] [extra: Longer version]  
Joseph Pegum [Full text] [extra: Longer version]  
William Jeffrey Scott [Full text] [extra: Longer version]  
Ian Smith [Full text] [extra: Longer version]  
Leader Dominic Stirling [Full text] [extra: Longer version]  
Sid Watkins [Full text] [extra: Longer version]  

reviews

 

Multimedia

 

Book: The Essential Difference: Men, Women and the Extreme Male Brain
Iain McClure [Full text] [PDF]  

 

Book: The Discovery of the Germ
Birte Twisselmann [Full text]  

 

TV: Now let's have evidence based politics
Trevor Jackson [Full text]  

 

Website of the week: Rare cancers
Anna Ellis [Full text]  

 

Personal views

What it's really like at the coalface
Julian Stokes [Full text]  

 

Soundings

A secret revealed
Liam Farrell [Full text]  

 

Minerva

[Full text] [PDF]

Fillers

 

POEM*: Lifetime risk of mole transforming to melanoma is very low [Full text] [PDF]  
Smoking cessation dilemmas in prison [Full text] [PDF]  
Submitting articles to the BMJ [Full text]  
Grommets, dude? [Full text] [PDF]  
Advice [Full text]  

Corrections

 

  ABC of diabetes: cardiovascular disease, hypertension, and lipids
BMJ 2003; 327: 17. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Accuracy of Ottawa ankle rules to exclude fractures of the ankle and mid-foot: systematic review
BMJ 2003; 327: 17. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Patients' accounts of being removed from their general practitioner's list: qualitative study
BMJ 2003; 327: 26. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Doctors' diagnosis
BMJ 2003; 327: 26. [Full text] [PDF]  
 
  Perspectives
BMJ 2003; 327: 26. [Full text] [PDF]  
 

Career focus

 

  This week's Career focus section [PDF]
THIS WEEK
Rhona MacDonald [Full text]  

 

Audit for doctors: how to do it
Andrew J Gibbons and Daljit K Dhariwal [Full text]  

 

A career in paediatric cardiology
Shakeel A Qureshi, Susan M Hobbins, and Nitha Naqvi [Full text]  

 

Getting that all important job: part 3
Anita Houghton [Full text]  

 

PROFILE: Sally Bennett
Rabia Malik [Full text]  

 

SOAP OPERA: Episode 31: Bring your own balaclava
Nicola Sharp [Full text]  

 

Website extra

 

How do you communicate risk? [Full text]

 

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